----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jul 15 16:11:29 GMT 2016 Year: 16 Doy: 197 Observer: waters WEATHER COMMENT: waters: Fri Jul 15 16:11:32 GMT 2016 Temp 44F with windspeed at about 7mph from the Southeast. Clouds are at about 13,000ft and above. Clear to the West but clouds/fog to the East and South are around the observatory. Will open the dome when the clouds have descended. ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jul 15 17:55:11 GMT 2016 Wet fog; getting some nice rainbows... ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jul 15 19:35:50 GMT 2016 Clouds/wet fog have burned off. Opening the dome and starting observations for the day. ___end___ Fri Jul 15 19:39:42 GMT 2016 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: synoptic-00007.cbk Fri Jul 15 19:43:03 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jul 15 19:56:48 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol KCOR COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jul 15 19:57:07 GMT 2016 Taking kcor calibration ___end___ GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jul 15 19:57:17 GMT 2016 Windspeed is at between 10-15mph from the East. Was seeing the dec and ra oscillate a bit, so i put the lower shutter up to block the spar. Looks to be helping. ___end___ Fri Jul 15 20:14:25 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jul 15 20:14:26 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Fri Jul 15 22:20:51 GMT 2016 COMP End Patrol Fri Jul 15 22:20:51 GMT 2016 COMP Start Patrol on cookbook: waves-00001.cbk Fri Jul 15 23:11:27 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol Fri Jul 15 23:12:05 GMT 2016 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jul 15 23:11:42 GMT 2016 Stray cloud coming up from the North, idled kcor but it has passed already. Looks like there might be some more coming up, so i'll keep an eye out. ___end___ Fri Jul 15 23:15:45 GMT 2016 KCOR End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jul 15 23:14:34 GMT 2016 Introduced Tim and Sang from GONG to Forest Mims. Forest had a wonderful time talking to them and getting to know more about what GONG does up here and such. It was good. ___end___ Fri Jul 15 23:16:34 GMT 2016 CoMP Paused for clouds GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Fri Jul 15 23:16:25 GMT 2016 Clouds came fast after the little ones, instruments idled... ___end___ Sat Jul 16 01:50:04 GMT 2016 CoMP Restarted from pause Sat Jul 16 01:50:04 GMT 2016 COMP End Patrol GENERAL OBSERVATORY COMMENT BY waters: Sat Jul 16 01:55:10 GMT 2016 Went and checked on the Gong guys, tried to help them out with finding a new ground cable but no dice up here. ___end___